Develop a cheetah regional center there, cheetah breeding regional center there that we were working on. We wanted to bring gower over there, takin, so there were a variety of different species that would be perfect out in that environment, especially takin. So that was something that we wanted to… Read More
Why do you think zoos did not pick up on having a national elephant program?… Read More
Does space continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
I’m sorry?… Read More
Does space continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
What are some of the stories?… Read More
Overall, reintroduction back into the wild of animals from a zoo is extremely difficult, in reality. There have been many reptile species that have obviously successfully been reintroduced back into the wild. There have been work with, I know that Fort Worth Zoo has been working with Penguin reintroductions into… Read More
And so it’s harder than you think. There have been some successes, Pittsburgh wasn’t involved in any, we didn’t try, but there have been some successes in that area, particularly with Arabian Oryx and things like that. But it’s hard, it’s a difficult thing to do. Read More
So just mutually beneficial, and so much fun to have a sister zoo relationship. Read More
How successful have zoos been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
So it’s basically a mutually beneficial program where you trade keeper staff, we traded keeper staff from their facility, our facility, and not just elephants. Orangutan keeper came over, aquarists came over to our zoo, our keepers went over to their zoo, and had an opportunity to learn and be… Read More
And in conservation, aside from in the wild, is the sister zoo relationship important?… Read More
And did Pittsburgh have one?… Read More
We did. We had one of the first, maybe the only at that time, sister zoo relationship with the Wuppertal Zoo. And what we were looking at is a way to help other zoos who were in similar situations as ours, but maybe 10 years earlier than us. And so… Read More
And so we developed a formal partnership with them, one of the very first to work with them. So we did several projects with them. We went to Africa and collected African elephant semen from wild elephants. That’s a hoot. That’s a lot of fun. That’s one of the most… Read More
I mean, they did work on our sharks, they did work on our rhinos, they did work on our elephants. They’re just phenomenal, and a lot of fun too. Read More
What was your relationship with the Institute for Zoological and Wildlife Research and why did you have the partnership with them?… Read More
What did it bring to Pittsburgh?… Read More
We had, oh my gosh, the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research is incredible. Dr. Thomas Hildebrand and his team out of Berlin are phenomenal. They’re the world’s leaders in reproductive biology and physiology in wild animals and exotic animals. The world’s leaders. And they go all over the world… Read More
And I read every one of ’em cover to cover many, many times, because they had so much information in ’em. So whether you take that book and it ends up on your iPad and you read it that way, or whether you listen to these wonderful video archive sessions,… Read More